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Summary: Professor Patrick Bellegarde-Smith is a faculty member in the department of Africology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He researches in the areas of African and Neo-African religions and African diasporic social thought and philosophy. He holds a PhD in international relations, comparative politics and history. He has taught in all these areas in Black Studies and Women's Studies over the last three decades.

He joined CHRY to discuss the role of spirituality and vodou in the slave rebellion of 1791, and in contemporary Haitian Society.

Credits: Interview conducted by Matthew Fava

Notes: Ready for air with introduction, a pre-recorded phone interview.